Blog Tour: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
Thank you to the following blogs for featuring Donna Heman’s Tea by the Sea! The Livre Café Jessica Belmont Fiction Matters Everyday I Write the Book Never Without A Book […]
News & Reviews
News:
PREE Lit: AN INTERVIEW AND COVER REVEAL WITH DONNA HEMANS, AUTHOR OF TEA BY THE SEA
Date: July 1, 2020
Tea by the Sea, Donna Heman’s second novel, will be published by Red Hen Press in June 2020. The winner of the 2015 JaWS JAMCOPY Lignum Vitae Award for unpublished manuscripts Heman’s […]
Electric Lit: How I Learned to Embrace Jamaican Patois, the Language of My Youth
Date: July 1, 2020
There’s something about Jamaican patois that grates and soothes at the same time. It is the language of home. It is the language of the women who lived in my […]
Ms. Magazine: Picking Meat From Tiny Bones: Coping with Coronavirus, Isolation and Aging Parents
Date: July 1, 2020
Fish is what my mother craves after the day’s radiation treatment, and from the passenger seat, she directs me to a roadside shop on the outer edge of Discovery Bay […]
TBLR: Importing Color
Date: July 1, 2020
During the ongoing shelter-in-place regime, I should be reading fiction and transporting myself to other worlds that might afford me a semblance of normality or familiarity. But I don’t seem […]
Repeating Islands: Donna Hemans
Date: July 1, 2020
Donna Heman’s forthcoming novel Tea by the Sea is now available for pre-ordering. It will be released on June 9, 2020 (Red Hen Press). Marlon James (author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf) writes: […]
Donna Hemans And TEA BY THE SEA on Wine Women & Writing
Date: July 1, 2020
Join Pamela Fagan Hutchins for a lovely conversation wtih Donna Hemans about her June 9, 2020 release, TEA BY THE SEA, a lyrical novel about family uniting and unraveling, set […]
Fanna: 15 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS RELEASING IN JUNE 2020 || SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER; READ & RECOMMEND THESE STORIES
Date: July 1, 2020
It’s been a week since the protests in United States have started to demand justice for all the black lives lost to racist cops’ brutality. Everyone is and should be […]
Authors Interviewing Their Characters: Donna Hemans
Date: June 30, 2020
Read the full interview here!
Poets & Writers: Tea by the Sea
Date: June 30, 2020
“Eight years of active searching had come to this: an abandoned house, an outdoor stove, and a doll, signs of a former life but necessarily his and hers.” In this […]
Reviews:
On Birds of Paradise Lost” by Andrew Lam”
Date: January 12, 2016
"Just as Lam connects with and penetrates each persona, so too each persona achieves a moment that bridges or leaps the gap between our two cultures, forever wedded by the […]
When the World Breaks Open is a hit with Kirkus Reviews!
Date: December 7, 2015
The first review for Seema Reza’s memoir When the World Breaks Open is live! Kirkus Review praises Reza for her “self-lacerating honesty” and that she “exercises literary license and often […]
Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules” is featured on Buzzfeed! “
Date: December 7, 2015
Arianna Rebolini, writer for Buzzfeed, created a list of books that will help the public understand mental disorders and illnesses. Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules is […]
Blotterature Celebrates The Crawford County Sketchbook”!”
Date: December 3, 2015
Called a "must read for all of those fans of Southern Gothic, great storylines, nostalgia, and a tinge of weirdness," this is one book you won't want to miss. Read […]
For this month’s Southwest Book Review, Mary Sojourner spoke with author Mark Rozema about his memoir Road Trip.””
Date: November 20, 2015
Mary Sojourner, from KNAU, interviews Mark Rozema and discusses his first memoir, Road Trip. She brings up the focus Road Trip has on grace and the gift of being in […]
Brad Wethern’s Kids in the Wind” leaves an impression on Cleaver Magazine!”
Date: November 16, 2015
Rachael Tague, of Cleaver Magazine, recently reviewed Brad Wethern's Kids in the Wind. She comments on how Wethern seems to blend the lines between imagination and reality by saying his […]
Kirkus Reviews loves Road Trip!
Date: October 15, 2015
We are very proud of Mark Rozema's oustanding review by Kirkus Reviews! A series of essays delicately evoking nature?s power and mystery. Poet Mary Oliver provides the epigraph for essayist […]
The Rumpus calls Amy Uyematsu, brilliant!””
Date: September 28, 2015
Jeannine Hall Gailey from The Rumpus wrote a great review about her excitement on reading Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door. "The Yellow Door continues Uyematsu’s tradition of strikingly-crafted lyric poetry, […]
Pedestal Magazine raves about The Yellow Door!””
Date: September 25, 2015
Congratulations to Amy Uyematsu for this fabulous review by Lee Rossi for The Pedestal Magazine! "This new book contains many of the characteristic pleasures of her writing—precise diction, keen awareness […]
The Luba Poems” puts readers under a spell!”
Date: August 31, 2015
Barry Wallenstein, of the American Book Review, published a review of The Luba Poems for their May/June 2015 issue. He praises Colette Inez's wording and how they are able to […]